Language modeling software does not want to be anthropomorphized.

Today is the 40th anniversary of "Ultima IV: Quest Of The Avatar", a game that changed me. #ultima

LLMs: every answer is "I'm guessing this is what you want to hear."

The tool shapes the user; the master shapes the tool.

Sometimes I think governments are large-scale home-owners associations.

🦀🎂 #612

`read x y < <(stty size);x=${x:-24};y=${y:-80};z=$(((x-1)*y));while true;do [[ $((z--)) -gt 0 ]] && printf "%b" "\u$((2571+(RANDOM % 2)))" || break;done`

"Siri, do I have spyware on my computer?"

Overheard: "In metallurgy there's 'pre-war steel': all steel smelted since the start of nuclear tests is slightly radioactive -- not enough to be dangerous, but enough to throw off sensitive equipment. Thus, steel poured before 1945 has more value. 2022 is that year for AI slop."

Happy birthday, John Egbert. Don't drift away from your friends.

From Riff's website in 2002, kept it as a local copy. When Riff's website disappeared I posted it on my own site. I lost the original URL in the years since, and I changed the HTML to make it compatible with modern browsers.

Not me; I didn't live in Madison nor Harvard. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Bl...

`10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10`

Trying to read a product offer from Amazon Web Services, and I'm interrupted by instructions to use their "explainer" chatbot. If you wrote well before you published, I wouldn't need an chatbot to rewrite your work, now would I?

Got a CD in the mail from Japan, and I think they sent me a well-made bootleg. I.E.: the morse-code title has an error, the track lists in the booklet and on the back are different, both lists show 9 tracks when the CD has 10. Weirdly, this feels like it's more valuable.

"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hopes this would set them free, but that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." -- Frank Herbert "Dune"

Just got an unsolicited but legit email from my bank, offering to teach me how to avoid phishing scams, "just click on these links to find out more." My brother in Mammon, this trains them to succumb to phishing scams.

"An important rule of being on the internet is to have something else in your life other than being on the internet."

Really digging the deejay set videos published by Book Club Radio.

Remember THEY want you to be paranoid.

open directories are the liminal spaces / backrooms of the world wide web

You don't have to make yourself suffer to learn the lesson.

Happy birthday Jane Crocker, happy birthday John Egbert, and good luck.

You should gift your tomorrow-self with stuff already done.

The horrors persist, but so do I.

I still use vi to write HTML and I cannot be stopped.

If I lived a single-task/single-focus life, and didn't stay on top of everything to catch every opportunity, I wouldn't have enough time to see my therapist about my anxiety issues. Sad!

Two-factor authentication: something you know and something you ƑȆÄṞ

Monk: "Buddha, what makes us human?"
Buddha: "Selecting all images with traffic lights."

"Anxiety is fear rooted in simulation not experience." My ruminations give me tenfold experiences for each failure, while each success I live only once.